WHILE DRIVING HOME ABOUT 10 PM ON IDAHO 200 THE ABS LIGHT CAME ON, ABOUT 1 MINUTE LATER THE HAND BRAKE LIGHT CAME ON AND STARTED TO BRAKE THE CAR, AFTER A FEW SECONDS THE LIGHT WENT OF AND THE CAR STARTED TO ACCELERATE, FEW SECONDS LATER THE BRAKE LIGHT CAME BACK ON AND THE CAR STARTED TO BRAKE THEN LET OFF. THIS CONTINUED FOR ABOUT 7 TO 10 MINUTES. FINALLY THE ABS LIGHT STAYED ON BUT THE BRAKE LIGHT WENT OFF AND STAYED OFF. THE ROAD (200) AT THAT TIME IS VERY LIGHTLY TRAVELED AND WE WANTED TO GET HOME AND NOT GET STRANDED AT THAT TIME OF THE NIGHT IN A NO CELLPHONE AREA. IF I WERE DRIVING ON I90 AT 70MPH IN HEAVY TRAFFIC THERE WAS A GREAT CHANCE THERE WOULD BE A REAR END COLLISION, FOR WHEN THE HAND BRAKE IS ACTIVATED THERE IS NO BRAKE LIGHTS TO WARN DRIVERS FOLLOWING ME THAT THE CAR AHEAD OF THEM IS STOPPING. *TR
2001 GMC S Series
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the service brakes. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsService Brakes
Filed Feb 4, 2015122,500 milesMT
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.